Metallic chair-bottom



v. STOCKTON. METALLIC CHAIR BOTTOM.

Patented Aug. 7, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VOLNEY STOCKTON, OF IVILLIAMSBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, ANDMITCHELL & ICAMMELSBERG, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

METALLIC CHAIR-BOTTOM.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,553, dated August 7, 1860.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, VOLNEY SToon'roN, of W7illiamsburg, in the county ofClarmont and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful MetallicChair-Bottoni; and I do hereby declare that the following is a `full andexact description of the same.

lMy invention consists in making the seats of plantation, garden andother chairs which require to be very strong and at the same time lightand portable and also capable of being readily kept clean, of thin sheetmetal peculiarly corrugated to render it sufficiently elastic toaccommodate itself to the form of the person using it, and so form anice and comfortable seat. For plantations and other places wherenumbers are required its cheapness will prove a great desideratum, asits manufacture is very simple and the material very low in price. Achair is thus constructed, which is easily put together and which can besold for a very low price.

In the drawings Figure l shows the plate of metal as it appears beforebeing applied to the chair, and F ig. 2 is a section of a chair with theseat attached. The plate of metal A is stamped into the shape shown froma square plate and the corners B are out out by the stamping process toaccommodate the vertical posts of the chair, by means of a suitablestamp, the corrugations, as shown at, C, presenting the appearance of aclosely interlaced basket work. The

stamping of the corrugations may be made at one and the same operationwith the stamping out of properly sized and shaped plates for a chairbottom, from a square plate of metal. Any metal may be used such as thinsheet iron, tin plate, or zinc. The corrugations are intended to giveelasticity, to a certain degree to the seat to enable it to take such aform by depressing into a cup like shape, to give a most comfortableseat to the person using the same.

The method in which the seat is to be secured to the four top horizontalrounds of the chair is illustrated in F ig. 2. The plate A being laid onthe rounds the projecting pieces a are bent over the rounds D to theunder or inside of which they are secured by tacks or other suitablenails and a chair bottom is made at once durable and cheap. lere rain tolodge thereon of course, being of metal it would rust or oxidize, toprevent which it can be varnished painted or japanned and a few holesbeing perforated in the center or lowestpart the rain will run off, thedepressed portions of the corrugations forming` so many channels toconduct the water to a place of exit through which it can find its wayolf the chair to the ground.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States is as follows:

As a new article of manufacture a chair bottom of corrugated sheet metalas herein shown and described.

VOLNEY STOOKTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN Q. ADAMS, IVM. CLoUGH.

